Hi, was just wondering if my XU 1s a rare colour, HG350 reckoned it
was when she ran my numbers a couple of years ago.
Only other Sable Metalic torrie Ive seen was the one on AMC Sales
site, and there was some question on the authenticity of that cars
numbers, coincidently by that cars PSN no it went down the
Adelaide line same day as mine. Did they assemble XU 1s in batches
of colours?
Also trying to find out my selling dealer, Ive ckecked the thread posted
earlier/not there, Melissa thought it was WA dealer. Anyone know
who dealer 812 was/is?
cheers jono
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Posted 11 May 2007 - 02:39 PM
My car was originaly sable met. Not sure how rare the colour is but I have not seen to many of them. What day did your car go down the Adelaide Line?
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Posted 11 May 2007 - 02:50 PM
hey gtrtorana, mine went down on the 23rd
cheers jono
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Posted 13 May 2007 - 05:30 PM
AFAIK and according to a worker from Acacia Ridge the cars did not come through the assembly line in batches of the same colour.
That may have been the case else where but I doubt it but it could have been coincidently that a few were the same colour especially in a common one like white.
Regards ............... Barry
That may have been the case else where but I doubt it but it could have been coincidently that a few were the same colour especially in a common one like white.
Regards ............... Barry
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Posted 14 May 2007 - 10:17 AM
in the 70's, I think holden spray booths would have had seperate lines hanging on the wall for each colour, so lots. the painter would unclip red, go to white etc.
I imagine to keep paint moving, they would alternate colours/lines often.
if you consider the large number of colours to choose, it is unlikely they had that many hoses, maybe 10! one set for each painter. more than ten sets!
so some colours would have large runs of that colour as it would not of been in the lines. but maybe only 10! that seemed to be the smallest run in the company I worked for, once they had 10 orders or more, they made them.
and usually all in a row.
so with a data base of colours and dates collected over the yrs, I think you could work out which colours were in the lines at which factory, and which were special orders.
but that would be time consuming.
in the 80's companies, switched to a more automated system with paint, but colours were also limited to the amount of lines they had.
where I was there were 16 paint lines, one used for special orders, like army green cars everywere for a few days!
it would then be flushed out ready for another colour. Like black.
black was in the base coat spray booths for black outs etc, but not the top coat booths. the black outs would be masked up before the top coat.
nowadays, black would be in the main lines one would think.
I didn't work for holden, but they all did similar things.
So straight up you could see special order colours.
strike me pink
Black
sable met ?
how many colours used for other models. which plants had which colours.
by using different colours at different plants would of reduced the number of paint lines required, increased the number of colours to choose from.
Like are all sebring orange gtrs melbourne cars?
indi orange gtrs adelaide?
is that why did some gtrs got assembled in melbourne on adelaide bodies, the colours ordered were not in adelaide lines?
is there enough room to set up a survey on what colour you got, which plant?
maybe do a thread for each yr?/plant
colours that poll poorly, set up date surveys.
I imagine to keep paint moving, they would alternate colours/lines often.
if you consider the large number of colours to choose, it is unlikely they had that many hoses, maybe 10! one set for each painter. more than ten sets!
so some colours would have large runs of that colour as it would not of been in the lines. but maybe only 10! that seemed to be the smallest run in the company I worked for, once they had 10 orders or more, they made them.
and usually all in a row.
so with a data base of colours and dates collected over the yrs, I think you could work out which colours were in the lines at which factory, and which were special orders.
but that would be time consuming.
in the 80's companies, switched to a more automated system with paint, but colours were also limited to the amount of lines they had.
where I was there were 16 paint lines, one used for special orders, like army green cars everywere for a few days!
it would then be flushed out ready for another colour. Like black.
black was in the base coat spray booths for black outs etc, but not the top coat booths. the black outs would be masked up before the top coat.
nowadays, black would be in the main lines one would think.
I didn't work for holden, but they all did similar things.
So straight up you could see special order colours.
strike me pink
Black
sable met ?
how many colours used for other models. which plants had which colours.
by using different colours at different plants would of reduced the number of paint lines required, increased the number of colours to choose from.
Like are all sebring orange gtrs melbourne cars?
indi orange gtrs adelaide?
is that why did some gtrs got assembled in melbourne on adelaide bodies, the colours ordered were not in adelaide lines?
is there enough room to set up a survey on what colour you got, which plant?
maybe do a thread for each yr?/plant
colours that poll poorly, set up date surveys.
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